[Nottingham] Running Ubuntu at Nottingham Uni

[Dan Caseley]

I don't see the problem with an organisation like that saying "We know
Windows, but we'll make best efforts on absolutely anyone who goes for
Bring Your Own Device. No promises, but at least our nerds can Google for
you".

Maybe not those precise words. But you see the intention. They don't need
to employ experts of every discipline, they just need someone with a bit of
techno knowhow who is more likely to know the correct search engine
incantation to get him/herself a possible answer. It really doesn't need to
be costly or regimented.

On 24 May 2012 16:48, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

> On 24/05/12 16:39, David Aldred wrote:
> [---]
> > Though some of that assumption is having to start to break down as
> > students increasingly want to use iOS, Android and BBOS devices to talk
> > to University systems.   The problem for any institution is deciding
> > what 'support' means -  paying for expertise to support Windows, MAcs,
> > all flavours of Linux, BBOS, Android etc etc gets rather costly.
>
> Hopefully your costs *reduce* due to fewer niggles and problems, and
> less of the expensive lock-in, with the Linux and *nix systems ;-)
>
> ?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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